Dates & times
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- From 4:00 PM
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Check the organizer’s latest schedule ↗Mouse at Music Box Theatre: A North Little Rock Friendship in Chicago
Callie is a singer and performer with a prominent place in her North Little Rock community; Minnie has spent much of their friendship in Callie’s shadow. After an accident upends their relationship, Minnie seeks connection with Callie’s grieving mother—a shift that gives Mouse its focus on friendship, loss and the search for a place to belong.
A friendship unsettled
In 2002, Minnie and Callie are approaching their final year of high school in North Little Rock. Callie is well known in town for singing and performing; Minnie, less self-assured, has long relied on Callie’s guidance.
A sudden accident changes their friendship, leaving Minnie uncertain about what comes next. She turns toward Callie’s mother as she seeks connection, while the older woman is also coping with grief. Their relationship brings the film’s focus to a young person’s struggle to define herself alongside an adult’s search for comfort.
Further reading: Mouse in Chicago at Music Box Theatre ↗
The Chicago connection is behind the camera
Kelly O’Sullivan wrote Mouse and co-directs it with Alex Thompson. The event listing describes them as a Chicago-based filmmaking duo and cites Ghostlight and Saint Francis among their earlier films. The story, though, is set in North Little Rock, Arkansas—not Chicago.
Sophie Okonedo plays Callie’s mother. Katherine Mallen-Kupferer and Chloe Coleman are also listed among the stars; the event description notes that Mallen-Kupferer appears alongside her real-life mother, Tara Mallen. That family connection is context about the performers, not a description of their roles.